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Lucien snatches the sleeve of my top and hauls me back behind several wooden barrels in someone’s backyard. Behind us are fig trees and a small hut-like house made of gray stone. As long as no one looks out the window, we should be fine.
Crouched low, Lucien huddles close. “Did you even look before you ran out so quickly?” he whispers harshly under his breath.
I cut him a glare. “Of course I did.”
Tempers are high, but I shake it off. It’s not him I’m frustrated with, but what Mad has taken from us all.
Peering through the gap between two barrels, I watch two Beta males talk in hushed voices and head down the path this way.
I tense. I exchange glances with Lucien, who’s pointing at them from the back of our hiding spot. He’s seen them. If there’s one benefit of so many pack members living in the compound, it’s that all our scents are so heavily mingled in the air that I pray to the moon and back that they won’t pick up our wolves.
While we have no idea whose side they’re on, we can’t take the risk.
Huddling near Lucien, I watch them with intensity, but in my head, I have it all played out. The moment I sense a whisper of being detected, I will take them both down.
Moments later, they stroll past us, and behind the frantic beating of my heart, all I can make out of their whispers are four words. “He’s doing it now.”
My mind catapults to Mad, and all I can picture is him hurting Meira. He’s got her and is going to cut her up, take her blood, take everything.
Electricity jolts through me at the thought, and a desperate urgency flares over me. I’m on my feet, charging after those bastards to make them talk.
Strong hands snatch the back of my hoodie and wrench me backward.
I stumble, my heel catching on a broken stone in the garden. My stomach lurches as I fall onto my ass hard near the row of spinach. I growl under my breath when Lucien gets in my face.
“The fuck, man?”
I shove him off me. “They know something about Meira.”
“You don’t know that. We can’t reveal ourselves.”
Heat pulses in my temples as I twist my head to find the two Betas are long gone.
“Shit.” I’m on my feet. “We go now!”
Lucien’s lip curls upward. “Keep it the hell together. We stick to the plan. Get Dušan, and then we’ll be stronger to take on Mad.”
Fury knots in my chest, but I swallow back the anger. “Let’s do this then.”
Checking the perimeter and finding it clear, we run straight for the fortress and to the side door, where I broke the lock last time we were here.
We burst into the hallway. Shadows cling to the walls.
There’s not a soul in sight and the deeper we travel through the compound, the more my stomach knots. It’s never this quiet here. Ever!
Lucien sprints down the stairs silently, and I lunge after him, ever vigilant. We go all the way down to the base dungeon, convinced that if Mad put our Alpha anywhere, it’s down there.
We curve around the stone steps, suddenly face to face with a guard.
I stiffen.
Lucien stops.
The man is as startled as us at first, frozen on the spot, his eyes practically bulging out of his sockets. I’ve seen him several times before. Jarrod. A Beta with more muscle than brains.
I clench my fists, but Lucien lunges at him, stealing my fight from me. “You think you can laugh at my cowboy boots?” He growls as they both hit the floor hard.
I roll my eyes and charge right into the dungeon. We have no time to waste.
My sights scan the area for guards, and the cells for Dušan, but I come up short on both fronts.
Instead, my gaze settles on a small bundle at the back of a cell, her heartbreaking cries filling the room.
I stumble forward, my throat thickening. “Meira!”
